The Story of Cantin Dionne

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Map Showing Important Points in the Narrative
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1. St. Andrews (1810)
2. Lincoln (1814)
3. Maugerville
4. 1814 land grant
5. Presque Isle Military Garrison (Married there in 1815)
6. Richmond land grant (1819-24)
7. Kent parish land grant (1824-26)
8. St. Basile/St. David (1827-33)
9. Edmundston/St. Jacques land grant (1840-53)
10. Green River land grant (1860)





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PANB RS108 - 1814 - F4177 
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G- Sproul Esq
  Surveyor General
    Fredericton
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    Sir

        The bearer Conter Yon informs 
me you desire to know if he is honest and 
industrious.  During his residence here, he is 
entitled to the above character

                    M A Glenie

Lincoln
July 18, 1814




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PANB RS108 - 1814 - F4177
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                      Lincoln July the 18 - 1814

I Do heare By Sertify that Canti Yon Came 
To me two years agoo with a recomendtion from 
Sqir Pagan and Mr McMasters of Saint 
Andrews and he has worked for Me a considrable 
part of the time Since and I found him to Be 
a hard working industrous person

                       Stephen Glasier







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PANB RS108 - 1814 - F4177 
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To His Honor Percy Smith Esquire provincial H???
of the Province of New Brunswick etc. And the Honorable
His Majsties Council of the province of New Brunswick

     The memorial of Conter Yon; a Resident
of York County (formerly in the Count of Sunbury) Most Humble
Sheweth; that your Memorialist is a Single Man aged 
twenty Six years; was Born in the Province of Canada - and
has not Received any Lands from Government and
      prays your Honors will Please give him a
grant of Two Hundred Acres of Land; on the East side
of the River St. John; two Lots above Lands granted or
applied for by Hon. Bedel Esquire's son, in the County of York
      And your Memorialist again as in duty bound
             will Ever pray.

Sunbury County}                 Conten Yon
16 July 1814    }

     I Certify that the above Statement is Correct &
true, and that the Applicant is an industrious man
and capable to settle & Cultivate the Lands he applies
for                                 John Hazen? Jus. Pea.

18th July 1814 The situation applies for 
               in this Memol. is Vacant
                        Geo. Sproule






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PANB film RS 160 F15550 
York County Marriage Register 
Vol A 1812-1837 Page 44
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Conti ine John of the Parish of Wakefield & Mary
De Merchant of the same Parish were married by license
with Consent of Parents the Twenty third day of February
in the Year One thousand Eight hundred and fifteen by me
                            Wm Turner Justice of the Peace
This Marriage was Solemnized
between                     Contn Yeo
                            Mary D Merchant
In the presence of
George Burt ~ Elizabeth Turner
                   Registered 12 May 1815





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PANB Land petition RS108 1819-  F4185
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   To His Excellency Major General George Stracey Smythe Lieutenant
   Governor and Commander in chief of the Province of New Brunswick

   The memorial of Conter Yon of the County of York
   Most humbly sheweth
   That your memorialist was born in and bred up in the Province
of Lower Canada but he has resided for the last seven years in 
this Province. He is a married man and desirous with establishing
himself in the Province in the farming line but having no land
whereon to seat himself having never received any grant of land
from his Majesty's Government he now asks for an allowance of 
300 acres with the usual allowance of front in the vacant tract 
of land lying on the road leading to the American settlement of
Houlton about two or perhaps three miles from the boundary line
he has upon the said land about four acres cleared and under 
cultivation and your memorialist farther begs leave to state
that he is of sufficient ability to cultivate and improve land
and prepared by himself so to do. And he has not directly or
indirectly bargained or agreed for the transfer or sale of such
land to any person or persons whatever and your memorialist as
in duty bound will ever pray --
					Conter Yon (X his mark)

York Sessions
   On the thirteenth day of Feby one thousand eight hundred and
nineteen before me John Bedill squire one of his Majesty's 
Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid personally
came and appeared the before named Conter Yon and made
oath that the several matters and things sett forth in the
before written petition are just and true.
					John Bedill
					Justice of the Peace
17th Feby 1819

   The situation herein described is vacant crown land.
					Geo. Shore
					S General
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Land grant 1396
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Contin Yon 200 Acres
Parish of Woodstock
County of York
New Brunswick

G. G. Smythe, Lt. Gov.

[Long description of the land's boundaries: a parallelogram
of land 1 3/8 miles (east-west) by .3 miles along the road between 
Houlton and the St. John River. West end is about 1.5 miles from the
Maine border, about 200 acres given a 10 percent allowance for
the road, "being all wilderness land except a small improvement".
A plan is included, and shows neighbors Samuel Parks, William 
Woodworth, George Hillman and John Currie and others.]

[Long description of grantee's duties: improve the land and 
pay 2 shillings per hundred acres per year]

Jan 19, 1822






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Grant map of Richmond, N.B. area 
NB Dept. Natural Resources map No. 111, 1978
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Grant map of Edmundston, N.B. area
NB Dept. Natural Resources map No. 33, 1978
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